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Class of 2024 graduates throw their caps in the air at Commencement. Photo credit: Elman Studio.

Commencement 2024: Georgetown Law Graduates Celebrate, Reflect on Social Change and the Law

May 22, 2024 Campus News Our Alumni Students

“Your formal education may end today, but you are not done learning,” urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, L’79, H’24, in his address to Georgetown Law’s class of 2024. More than 1,100 spring graduates — including 641 J.D. candidates as well as 516 master of laws and 8 doctor of juridical science candidates — gathered on Georgetown University’s historic Hilltop campus to celebrate commencement on Sunday, May 19.

Celebrating the Georgetown Law Class of 2024

May 21, 2024 Campus News Students

Some 1,200 Georgetown Law students celebrated commencement on Sunday, May 19, joining the community of more than 51,000 Law Center alumni around the world. Below, nine J.D. and LL.M. graduates reflect on their time on campus and share their future plans — which span environmental law, electoral politics, public service and more.

L-R: Benjamin, Nicholas and Zachary Osborne, G’20, L’24.

Three Brothers, One Purpose: Graduating Identical Triplets Reflect on Finding a Passion for Public Service at Georgetown Law

May 16, 2024 Campus News Students

Identical triplets Nicholas, Zachary and Benjamin Osborne, G'20, L'24, remember how they felt when they first found out they had been admitted to Georgetown Law. "When we got the acceptance letter, it was saying welcome home," Nicholas says. Having moved to Washington, D.C. to earn master's degrees in economics from Georgetown in 2020 and enjoyed their first round as Hoyas, the 29-year-old North Carolina natives say that getting into the Law Center was the sign they needed that the nation’s capital had become home.